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One of the challenges facing organizations during transitions to Scrum is how to deal with functional knowledge silos. It is very tempting for an organization to allow managers to fill knowledge gaps by sharing people across teams. This practice, however, has specific detrimental effects.

For a sprint to achieve its goal, creating an effective sprint backlog is one of the most critical tasks you can complete. If handled correctly, an effective backlog can do wonders for any team and project.